― akm (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
What next? "Actually, Margaret Thatcher wasn't so bad after all, no really..."
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
haha. "You know, based on that Caligula guy, you now have to admit that Nero was quite the astute and great leader"
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
That's true that he has always been very popular with the general public. However, respect from "historians" is a different thing - though perhaps not uncorrelated. That review discusses many original and interesting points that Diggins makes - such as contrasting Reagan's Emersonian spirituality with the Puritan sternness that had gone before him (and that continues on to some degree in Bush).
― o. nate (o. nate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, to be sure, Diggins goes a lot further than favorably comparing him to Bush. In fact he favorably compares him to just about every American 20th century President, save FDR and possibly Truman.
― o. nate (o. nate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (o. nate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (o. nate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Claimed it a wonderful way to take his mind off the war.
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Does anyone have a link to that chart showing logarithmic death tolls for various conflicts?
― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/05407.xml
― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
It's arguable whether or not the war against Japan was already won - what remained was possibly the most difficult part of all - the invasion of the mainland.
And the sleep habits of a President are neither here nor there in any serious evaluation of historical legacy.
― o. nate (o. nate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― bliss (blass), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― o. nate (o. nate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
- from the article
― o. nate (o. nate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.bhopal.net/opinions/archives/rumsfeld-hussein.jpghttp://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40610000/jpg/_40610506_050610hussein203b.jpg
― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.colombiajournal.org/Para7%20copy.JPG
― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Unclear but its clear that the pendulum is swinging back but with the control being less overt.
― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Didn't the Reagan rehab start with the publication of his radio addresses and speeches a few years ago?
Actually, a recent New Yorker article argues that Putin ain't hidin' anything.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
A carefully constructed myth.
http://www.counterpunch.org/mickey08042004.html
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I read the New Yorker too.
― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link